It's not funny, but I laughed ..... a lot.

Practical Jokers are the anti-Christ, unless you are the Practical Joker. If you're the poor victim, you should only be guilty of justifiable homicide if you kill the SOB that did it to you.

That was Walter with the balloon.

An old welder's practical joke only I can't remember the specifics. Works with 2 L pop bottles as well.

Grizz

It's funny when it's someone else

It's propan?

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Originally posted by vashper:
It's propan?

Probably Acytylene, very unstable, nasty stuff out of the container, where it's stored, dissolved in Acetone.
Grizz

Yes it is acetylene, you can tell because of all the soot created when it burned. Propane gives a more yellow flame but more obviously is it does not create all of that soot.

There is a similar prank to do with someone welding (arc welding) is you can take a styrofoam cup and fill it with acetylene and place it somewhere on the joint being welded. When the weld gets close and a spark hits it the same thing happens, a "woof" and bright flame but the cup disappears and if the prankster is a ways away the poor welder has no idea what happened.

Back in the 80's I was welding and a local nut case came over and asked me to fill up one of those huge rubber balloons with acetylene. I asked if he was going to sniff it. "no sir". Well ok then. So I blew it full to about 2feet dia and he left.

About 1am the sky turned a bright red and a huge explosion went off. The cops and papers went nuts for a week trying to figure out what blew up.

When it happened I told the wife: Yep, that was Jimmers balloon". Turned out he had a tank of helium at home and another balloon along with a blasting cap and 5 feet of fuze. He said later it was 'WAY UP in the air" so long til it went off he figured the fire went out on the fuze.

Far as I know they've never figured it out yet.
The next time I refused to fill it up.

George

A couple of years ago i was was walking across from the home to the shop when the earth really moved with a loud explosion.Thought my loading room went up.No. Seems that one of the local neighbors (before he went to prison)[out here in the country you get all kinds] decided he wanted to go fishing so he stole a case of dynamite from the local quarry.Never went fishing but before he left to do his term he cached the case in a neighbors field under a cedar tree. 3 years later the property owner sees this decomposing box + calls the S.O. they come + look at it + call the bomb squad. They have a whole case of sticks sweating nitro. No one wants to touch it. So they sand bag it right there + set it off.Thank God no kid found that mystery box.

My Dad when he brought the farm from his brother after WWII found a box of old dynamite in the rafters of the corn crib.

With a box of caps on top of it he removed the cab very gently took the box of dynamite out to a remote hay field. Place the caps on top of the box.

Backed off a couple hundred yards shot it with his 300 savage.

The neighbors for weeks were asking what rattled their windows.

He also said that during the spring back in the 20s and 30s one could hear explosions often as the local farmers blew stumps and rocks.

He said car loads of dynamite were unloaded at the local siding.